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Three weeks ago, VMware and Salesforce.com launched VMforce, a Salesforce-hosted platform as a service (PaaS) solution based on VMware runtime technology and force.com application services. In my...
There’s a growing focus on PaaS (Platform as a Service), particularly as Microsoft has been rolling out Azure and VMware continues to push forward with its SpringSource acquisition. Amazon, though...
The VMforce announcement is a great step for SalesForce.com, in large part because it lets them address a recurring concern about the Force.com PaaS [platform as a service] offering: the lack of...
Let’s start with the disclosures: by most interpretations I work for a competitor to what Salesforce.com and VMWare are trying to do with VMforce. And all I know about VMforce is what I read in...
The battle of the cloud frameworks has started, and it will look a lot like the battle of the application servers which played out over the last decade and a half. Cloud frameworks (which manage IT...
We often talk about CloudSwitch moving legacy applications to the cloud in a simple and secure way; this raises the question of what exactly we mean by “legacy.” To be more specific...
There is the cloud that provides value by requiring as few changes as possible. And there is the cloud that provides value by raising the abstraction and operation level. The backward-compatible...
Create them now and stifle innovation or create them later when it’s too late? That seems to be the breadth of the discussion on cloud standards today. Fortunately, the situation with cloud...
Say the words “cloud computing” these days and prepare for a lengthy debate on nearly every aspect of it—from its definition, to its viability, to whether it’s hype or an imperative. For every...
For most people the holidays are a time to celebrate with family and friends, to wish each other good cheer, good health and prosperity in the new year. It's also a time to recharge and ready one's...
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